[mode80]

FWIW, I once explained cookies this way to my non-technical co-founder of that day. I could see the clouds part and he confessed it removed all the magic and mysticism surrounding these web cookie things. It was like “ah, just small text files. Got it.”

[dunham]

Yeah I could see that. A lot of people are not going to understand "data" as something concrete and "string" is going send them way off the path.